Growth Mindset One of our focuses this week will be on having a growth mindset. Students will learn about what a person with a growth mindset says and thinks. We will be doing a sorting activity, celebrating our mistakes, and watching a video series. You can watch the video series at this link: www.classdojo.com/BigIdeas Math This week we will continue to use our number corner curriculum to review place value, multiples, and yards, feet and inches. At home you can: ask students how they are using Ancient Egyptian symbols to review place value and talk about big numbers that you see and what place values are in the numbers. Students will also learn who their math teacher will be. On Tuesday night, you will have the opportunity to visit with your student's math teacher. Next Monday, September 26th, students will begin attending math class with this teacher from 12:30 to 1:30 everyday. Google Classroom This past week students got to use their iPads for the first time. They only used them for 30 minutes each day as they learned basic functions. The most significant tool they were introduced to is Google Classroom. This is a tool that we will use frequently as a class. For example, this week students will turn in their "vocabulary" and "writing about reading" assignments via google classroom. You will be receiving an invitation to join our classroom. You will have the option to have daily or weekly updates from Google Classroom. I personally recommend choosing weekly, since we will not have major daily activity on the site. Science This week we will continue our study of the structures and functions of life that we began last week with the brain. We will explore the skeletal and muscular system. Students will make a robot finger and then choose a body system to investigate further. We will not be dissecting chicken wings, but students will see a video of a chicken wing and foot dissection and it something you could try at home. I will also send home the template to make a robot hand if students wish to grow their finger into a full hand. Reading Students will work on the skill of summarizing narratives this week. We will use an acronym to help us construct detailed and organized summaries: SWBST. This stands for Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then; and I like to add "so what?" This encourages students to write about characters and their desires, the conflicts they encounter, how they solve the problem, and the resolution of the story. The "So what?" encourages students to elaborate further on the message of the author or their take away from the story. If you read with or discuss books with your student I encourage you to ask them about SWBST. Writing Last week students worked very hard to produce a writing work sample that described either a best day or best event from their summer. I was very impressed with how hard students worked on their writing. This week we will begin to explore what writers do and where they get their ideas. As we explore examples of great writing we will mine these examples for ideas to inspire our own writing. Reminders and Upcoming events
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